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There HAS to be a way to do this!
Hi Everyone,
I’ve scoured the manual, I’ve tried all kinds of things but I can’t figure out this one seemingly simple thing: How can I recapture a clip from its in and out points, rather than the entire media? I apologize in advance for asking such a rudimentary question, but its got me stymied!
Bob -
12 Replies
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Hi Bob,
well if you are doing a whole sequence of clips, then you need to use media manager to “consolidate” your timeline into a new version with just the used media (plus a couple of secs handles if you need them). If its just one or two clips, then using the capture tool, i would remake master clips using the in/out points. Look at ken Stones website for using Median Manager properlycheers
nick -
Thanks guys,
I think you misunderstood me, Dave – I was asking about recapturing, not the initial capture. Or maybe I’m the one misunderstanding! I’m working on a mulit-camera interview show and I don’t want to have to capture all of the interviewer questions and other (wide shot) cameras. All the tapes have timecode, so I want to capture the interviewee’s answers, then go through and chop up the clip to define where the questions are in the clip, then re-capture just those clips. I used to use this method on my old Media 100 and it worked great – saved a lot of time (these are LONG segments).Nick, you mention a “capture tool”. I don’t find any mention of it in the manual. Do you mean “batch capture”? As I said in my initial question – there HAS to be a way!
As always: Thank you!
Bob -
Nick – I’ve re-read your response and I think I understand what you’re saying now – if it’s just a few clips, I can just manually recreate them by typing the in and out times with the log and capture function. Pretty labor intensive for what I’m doing, unfortunately.
Bob -
Another way is to mark your in/out on the original clips, then simply drag/drop the clip from the bin to the open capture window and it will take on all of the metadata attributes i.e. reel ID, name, except that the mark in/outs will become the new clip ins/outs. Clever!
But first, create a new bin and be sure to designate it a capture bin so that when you press Enter/Return, the new clip does not mix in with the original. You can do this by creating a new bin, then control + click on it and select Set Logging Bin — all your new clips will go there. But remember that if you have identical filenames as a previous capture, you will have problems resolving them on capture.
Even if you delete the original captures, then do your consolidated recapture, FCP may still bonk you with a filename conflict, which can only be corrected manually, one by one. your best bet is to take you new logging bin and drag/drop it into a brand new project.
steve covello
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Bob,
yeah if its the whole sequence, then i would use media manager. That what its for. It will duplicate your entire sequence, or part of it if you want, create new clips with just the media used, plus handles if you want. It can either duplicate the media saving you having to recapture, or make an offline version which you then recapture. Media Manager…..does what it says on the int.cheers
nick -
Hmm…
Thanks for bearing with me guys, but I don’t think I’m quite there yet. What I’d like to do is define these new clips from clips in the timeline – in other words, if I have to create new clips in a bin, that still means I’m back to manually replacing clips in the timeline one at a time with the new clips.
I suppose with Media Manager I could create a new sequence, delete the “answer” clips leaving just the “question” clips, then make them offline (deleting the new media that media manager just created), recapture and then paste back into the original sequence.
I’ve been doing nonlinear editing for quite a few years now and it seems like this kind of thing has always been easy to do – just select a clip, recapture it, done. FCP is brilliantly designed to avoid mixing up clip/media relationships but here it is hindering what should be a simple procedure. I’ve tried making the clips offline, making subclips, making them “independent”, everything I can think of and it still wants to capture the entire media.
Thanks again for your patience..
Bob -
If im understanding correctly, you have your timeline assembled and your just wanting to capture a few clips that or now offline.
in your timeline, try right clicking (or control click, if you are without a mightymouse) and then selecting recapture. Im not sitting in front of my system so I cant remember if thats an option, but im pretty sure it is.
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Thanks, Ian. Yes, I could do that but FCP wants to re capture the entire media rather than just the in and out points of that particular clip. I trying to avoid recapturing the whole tape.
Bob -
This is a media manager duty, you just haven’t figured out how to do it yet.
Jeremy
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Yes, and it’s driving me a little crazy! If I make the clips I want to capture independent, then make them offline, then have media manager create a new project referencing the original media ( why the heck would I want to copy all the media?!) It functions just the same as before – wanting to capture all the media associated with the clip. I’m still convinced that there’s a way to do this!
Bob
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